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Jamaica Gleaner Commentary
published: Sunday | April 20, 2008

EDITORIAL - Time to take the gloves off against Mugabe
We don't expect that the Jamaican government last Friday sent an independence message to Zimbabwe, where Robert Mugabe continues to squat in the country's presidency and to thumb his nose at his own people and the international community. But being silent on Zimbabwe, we continue to insist, is not good enough.

Urgent for media to regulate self

The Broadcasting Commission (BCJ) has taken note of the decision by the Hon. Olivia Grange, minister of information, culture, youth and sports on the Newstalk 93 FM case, and will continue to carry out the necessary regulatory and follow-up actions.

Victory for the rule of law

Five years into Independence, founding father and the country's greatest legal luminary, Norman Manley, delivered an important speech as guest of the Philadelphia Bar Association in 1967. The speech now appears in the collection of Manley's speeches which Rex Nettleford edited, 'Manley and the New Jamaica.' (Henry)

Cricket miracle

My sister, Gillian Howie, who lives with her husband Doug in a beautiful house on a cliff overlooking the ever-changing, blue-green, coral-shadowed sea on the north coast of Antigua, is a lover of West Indies cricket. She follows all our matches religiously ... (McDonald)

Budgets and optimism

It is not easy to for a government to come up with a good budget in a small, vulnerable economy where resources are terribly scarce and citizens are more than willing to block roads in protest when they are disgruntled. Furthermore, the prospect of economic recession in the US economy and the menace of rising oil prices make the task even more difficult. (Wilson)





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